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Published in: EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics 2/2019

07-12-2018 | Editorial

Advances in vehicle routing and logistics optimization: exact methods

Authors: Michael Schneider, Timo Gschwind, Daniele Vigo

Published in: EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics | Issue 2/2019

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Given a fleet of vehicles and a set of customers (or tasks), vehicle routing problems (VRPs) ask for a minimum-cost set of routes to serve all customers (perform all tasks) exactly once, subject to side constraints. Since their introduction in the seminal paper by Dantzig and Ramser in 1959, VRPs have been among the most important and most widely studied problems in the Operations Research literature. Their huge success as a research topic can arguably be attributed to the fact that they are both theoretically challenging and of high relevance in transportation and logistics practice. …

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Metadata
Title
Advances in vehicle routing and logistics optimization: exact methods
Authors
Michael Schneider
Timo Gschwind
Daniele Vigo
Publication date
07-12-2018
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics / Issue 2/2019
Print ISSN: 2192-4376
Electronic ISSN: 2192-4384
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13676-018-0139-6

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